Mechanical Machine Operators

First Job Previous Job 52 of 10,000 More Like This $20.01 Per Hour DOE (Depends on Experience) Position range in Missouri $22.05 - $26.74 Per hour Mechanical Machine Operators Laclede Chain Manufacturing Co

Occupation:

Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Location:

Maryville, MO - 64468

Job Type:

Regular, Full Time (30 Hours or More), Permanent Employment, Evening/Swing Shift

Posted:

05/29/2026 Positions available: 5 Web Onsite /

Remote:

Work onsite all of the time

Updated:

05/29/2026

Expires:

07/28/2026 Job #: 13821735 Job Requirements and Properties Help for Job Requirements and Properties. Opens a new window. Work Onsite Full Time Experience 12 Month(s) Age 18 and up Schedule Full Time Job Type Regular Duration Permanent Employment Hours 40 Hours Per Week Shift Evening / Swing Shift Benefits Job Description Help for Job Description. Opens a new window. We are looking for courageous, talented, and hard-working individuals with a "can do" attitude. We are currently going through a cultural and operational change in our organization and looking for people to join the team that want to make a difference in their career as well as make the working world safer through our product innovations. Yes, our teams make and finish chain, but they also have the opportunity to make their own work environment a little better and safer. At Laclede, we work hard because our products are put to the limits every single day. We take chain making seriously, so our customers don't have to.

Position Summary:

Introductory level for chain production equipment that converts metal rod into continuously joined form chain; and a welder that then welds and trims the chain. As an operator you will calibrate and/or twist, while rigorously inspecting product for quality. The core competency focus at this level will be on safety, product quality, calibration of chain, and the low-level skills within the group operation.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Learns and stays alert to the safety aspects within your work area as well as various safety concerns throughout the Form & Weld Department.
• Learn and stay conscientious to quality aspects of the product.
• Learn about the process of calibrating and/or twisting chain and diligently inspecting each type of chain on the group.
• Learn about all pertinent paperwork and checks to be performed in your work area.
• Begin the learning process for starting and stopping the machines.
• Learn the process for reloading the former.
• Begin learning how to start the group to produce a sample product.
• Learn the process for cutting a QC sample, splicing the chain back together, and restarting the group.
• Starts machine to begin production while learning to observe machines operations for evidence of malfunction and monitoring product for nonconformities.
• Start learning to replace simple tooling in tool holders within the machines to maintain efficient machine operation while ensuring product meets specifications.
• Observes machine operation and continually monitors the quality of product to company specifications.
• Start learning to read and understand Job Travelers, PMTs, and High-Hat Tags to ensure proper wire is used for product and correct paperwork is placed on completed bin boxes.
• Maintain cleanliness of machines and housekeeping of work area.

Core Competencies:

• Analytical skills.
• Technical skills.
• Customer Service.
• Interpersonal Skills.
• Communication Skills—Oral and Written.
• Ability to work independently and as a team.
• Good work ethic—efficient, effective, accurate, organized, conscientious, dependable, and punctual.
• Ability to meet company standards (i.e., goals and objectives, production quotas, project deadlines) while maintaining a quality conscientious attitude.
• Adaptable— capable of changing with the work environment, production demands, priorities, methods, direction, etc.
• Motivated and takes initiative.
• Innovative/Resourceful.

Education:

• High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent work experience.

Required Qualifications:

• Mechanical skills or demonstrated ability to learn mechanical skills, ideally within a manufacturing environment.
• Must be able to use or learn to use measuring instruments such as calipers and rulers.
• Must be able to use hand and power tools.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment.

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

• Must be able to stand, walk, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach overhead, or crawl.
• Must be able to lift 50 lbs., at times may be asked to lift more.
• Environment is non-climate controlled.
• Production floor is typically loud.
• Must wear required PPE.